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Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Park Hearing; To consider climate change

Date: August 24, 2009
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Summary

Thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today. I am Stephen Saunders, president of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, a Denver-based group working to bring about action to reduce the contributions and vulnerabilities of the interior American West to human-caused climate change. Our